“Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.”

“No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

“a small spark can start a great fire”

Emmet Fox (1886–1951) American New Thought writer

“It'll start with a spark, and a great fire will grow.”

Tom Morello (1964) American guitarist and singer-songwriter

“Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.”

Max Ernst (1891–1976) German painter, sculptor and graphic artist

“The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.”

Whittaker Chambers (1901–1961) Defected Communist spy

“Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

“In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

“In wrath I strike, and set the dark ablaze
With the immortal spark of thought,
By friction-process brought
Of concentration
And distraction.
The darkness burns
With a million tongues;
And now I spy
All past, all distant things, as nigh.”

Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship

“No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light.”

José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist